Kansas has received a No. 4 seed in the East region of the NCAA Tournament and will open its March Madness run against No. 13 seed Cal Baptist on Friday in San Diego. The game will take place at Viejas Arena, the home of San Diego State, at 8:45 p.m. Central time. It will be televised on CBS. The Jayhawks and Lancers are paired with No. 5 seed St. John’s, the Big East tournament champion, and No. 12 seed ...
The 2025-26 Kansas men’s basketball team compiled plenty of high-quality wins — Iowa State, BYU, Texas Tech, Arizona, Houston — but those didn’t completely offset disappointing losses to the likes of UCF, West Virginia, Cincinnati and Arizona State. The result was that on Selection Sunday, the Jayhawks wound up as a No. 4 seed, a line lower than they had been projected in the committee’s bracket ...
After a couple of down years for the program, the 2025-26 Kansas basketball season certainly delivered its fair share of iconic moments. Fans will likely think back first to the biggest play in KU’s biggest win, which would be Flory Bidunga’s game-sealing block on Brayden Burries to help the Jayhawks beat No. 1 Arizona, or the uncommonly exuberant celebration from head coach Bill Self afterward. Or the most ...
The Kansas indoor track and field team has its first national champion since 2019. Junior Ashton Barkdull cleared a personal-best 5.80 meters in the pole vault at the indoor championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday, on his way to a first-place finish. Barkdull and Texas A&M’s Aleksandr Solovev each missed on three attempts at 5.85 meters, which meant that the title came down to how the two ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self said on Thursday that he wasn’t trying to be negative when describing Bryson Tiller’s performance against TCU as “not a physical game at all by him.” He said Tiller would be better the following day against Houston. But when the first half against the Cougars rolled around on Friday night, the freshman from Atlanta managed just two points on 1-for-5 shooting ...
After Kansas’ grim 69-47 loss to Houston on Friday night at the T-Mobile Center, KU coach Bill Self took a bit of a clean-slate approach when he said that after Sunday, no one will remember what took place at the Big 12 tournament. “I would love to have played longer, I would have loved to have been more competitive tonight, and everything,” he said, “but the reality of it is, on Sunday is a new day ...